#spectator

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#afford #certainly #clubs #consuming #dangerous

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#because #chelsea #different #easy #enjoy

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were. ↗

— Kenneth More

#being #changed #down #feel #game

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#most #paintings #people #respond #spectators

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#book #chasing #doing #i #pleasures

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#between #earlier #i #paintings #picture

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#days #distance #emotional #every #exchanging

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#everything #eye #highly #looking #spectator

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#blood #disposition #filtered #forever #moods

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#after #because #before #capacity #disappears